WOLLONGONG, MY NEW HOME | WINTER VIBES 2019

After a life of non-stop travel &back to back performances Wollongong seems to be the place I have “settled”. Never thinking I would ever settle & still not believing it, my new home brings a lot of comfort & for me although not much winter.

Being born in Siberia, Russia my idea of winter is knee high snow, the spine tingling scraping of ice off windshields in the morning, huge jackets & watching people walk depressively slow outside in the piercingly cold -30 degree weather. My new found home brings with it upbeat winter vibes: A fisherman in shorts by the ocean, a women walking a pack of dogs quite cheerfully in her short sleeve t-shirt, several people hurling themselves out of aeroplanes & the committed early birds jumping into the ocean pools every single morning. Wollongong’s winter is not winter, but I’m not complaining.